Never can get Mplayer stable

Instinct · n00b Joined: 02 Aug 2002 Posts: 74

As much as I like it, I have yet to have a trouble-free install of it, and after 6 months of gentoo it's the only program that's ever crashed the X server for me, and it's done it multiple times.

After the recent announcement of all the new supported codecs I emerged the latest version. As it was compiling I noticed gcc was using -O4 which seemed kind of odd. It finished compiling, I selected a file to play and before I knew it was I looking at my gdm login screen again. So I edited the ebuild to remove the unset cflags statement and changed my make.conf to relfect -O2 instead of -O3. It compiled this time as expected with -O2, yet the movie window will just freeze randomly at some point when playing. If run from a terminal I see that it's still playing (I think) but the video is frozen and there is no sound. I have tried different -vo and -ao options with the same results.

I'd like to get this working within phoenix w/ plugger but not until it can be stable enough to run on it's own. Suggestions? Is there some magic USE flag I need set? Video card is nvidia, and I've heard that their drivers may be the cause of problems, but this is my only unstable app. This seems to occur on multiple movie formats...

xcable · Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2002 4:02 pm Post subject: more info

I have used mplayer (several versions) and have come accross many problems (all solved), but i need more info on you system.

video dirver :
gui (kde, gnome, windowmaker, etc..) :
sound system (alsa, arts, kernel modules, etc..) :
X11 version :
video output (vx, X11, etc...):
gcc flags (from make.conf) :
gcc version :
mplayer version (stable of unmasked) :

Instinct · n00b Joined: 02 Aug 2002 Posts: 74

xcable · Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2002 3:59 am Post subject: upgrade gcc

You probably need to upgrade to gcc 3.2.1. Some programs had to change to make them compatable with gcc 3. Gcc 2 and Gcc 3 are different (the API changed quite a bit). This may fix it. Also gcc 3.2.1 does a better job of compile code, and you get more options of optimization.

cable

mmealman · Guru Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 348 Location: Florida

Could be be that a lib mplayer was using was compiled with -O4 and is what is causing the instability?

Warriors Prayer · Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2002 2:31 pm Post subject:

hi,

-O4 does not exist, -O3 ist the highest level. Read man gcc for details.
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hhaamu · Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2002 3:22 pm Post subject:

Warriors Prayer · Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2002 7:14 pm Post subject:

hi,

ok, so if -O9 does exist, which additional flags does it contain?
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Plextor 1610A ATAPI, Pioneer DVD 303S SCSI
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puddpunk · l33t Joined: 20 Jul 2002 Posts: 681 Location: New Zealand

well, he's right. I assume -O4 would just disable the optimisations...

Malakin · Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2002 9:35 pm Post subject:

With GCC 3.2x and GCC 2.95.3 the highest you can go is -O3, feel free to read the manuals. From what I understand going higher then O3 gives you O3 still.
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.2/gcc/Optimize-Options.html#Optimize%20Options
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-2.95.3/gcc_2.html#SEC10

I have mplayer working perfectly on a system using GCC 2.95.3 so that's not the problem. Not sure if this actually effects any of the mplayer stuff but my CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS are set to "-march=i686 -O2 -ffast-math -pipe"

Does "mplayer -vo null -ao null" still cause it to crash? That at least rules out both audio and video outputs.